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tifies as 483 of 1906 is dated three years later A.D. 1217. The Bhujabalavīra records are few and extend over practically the whole of Kulōttunga's reign; I think that Nallasiddha, the son of Erasiddha, is himself the author of these records, the titles in which are indicative of his claim to independence. Such pretentious records could not be issued every day and were published whenever, in the estimate of Nallasiddha, Kulōttunga was too preoccupied to notice his action. Some such assumption would explain the facts so far known. But this means, once more, that we set aside the testimony of the Tammusiddhi records on the death of the eldest son of Erasiddha. If these assumptions are correct, we may distinguish two periods when Nallasiddha found it possible to act like an independent king: (1) A.D. 1183-1192, when Kulōttunga was engaged in the Pāṇḍyan campaigns, (2) from A.D. 1214 towards the close of Kulōttunga's reign when that monarch was, as we shall see, once more drawn into an encounter with the Pāṇḍyas. It may be noted that in this second period, we get records of a Bhujabalavīra Errasiddha (*NI.* A. 38, R. 38, G. 59, G. 58) who rules in the early years of Rājarāja III, and like Nallasiddha, sometimes acknowledges the Cōḻa suzerainty and sometimes does not. Was this Errasiddha the son of Nallasiddha? There is a record in Tiruppukkuḻi (Ch.), 192 of 1916, of the fifteenth year of a Nallasiddharasa of the family of Mukkaṇṭi Kāḍuveṭṭi. It is engraved in very faulty language and gives the usual Pallava titles. Its date and relation, if any, to the Telugu-Cōḍa Nallasiddha cannot be determined.